I think I've met my knitting match. I'm working on Jared Flood's Rock Island and it is driving me bananas. I always find that Flood's patterns are not mindless knits overall (although some have mindless portions which I hope to get to in Rock Island if I ever overcome my current challenges). But this one has got me. The lace border was a bit tedious but generally ok. I did find that I had to back up a couple of times because I did something wrong in an 8 row repeat but there weren't that many stitches in a row so despite the aggravation of taking a few steps back, not a big deal.
Then came a few rows with a bunch of straight garter stitch. A lovely intermission.
Now, I'm working on the next lace section. I've frogged back to the knit rows twice now because I keep messing something up. I read a comment on Ravelry that mindful knitting was necessary to complete this shawl and I think that is where my troubles are. I'm a pretty good knitter. I usually love charts. I like cables and fair isle. But my mind does tend to wander. Since there are 271 stitches in the first row, I think this pattern is testing the limits of my attention span. So yesterday, I started row 1 again, but this time, I wrote the instructions out on a piece of paper. So far, half way through row 2, I'm where I should be. Lets hope this continues because I really love this shawl. And I will conquer it!
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